AI is a creature of capitalism, and it will upend our politics. Third in a series on AI—read the first, on how we could lose our minds to AI, here and the second, on a new Turing Test for the 21^st century, here.

Electing septuagenarians, with all the demands and pressures of the Presidency, is rolling the dice with a constitutional crisis.

Saint Seraphim, patron saint of Russian nukes? Dmitry Adamsky’s Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy tells the story of how the Kremlin and Russian Orthodox Church came to embrace one another, and how the relationship continues to shape Russia’s identity and worldview.

The third and latest volume of Paul Rahe’s history of classical Sparta attempts to shed new light on a period and a city-state of which we still know little.

The coronavirus crisis is underscoring the need to re-examine old ideologies about globalization and modernization.

How do we meet today’s needs for food, water, energy, and economic opportunity without sacrificing our ability, and the planet’s capacity, to meet these needs tomorrow? Here’s a bipartisan approach that can help.

For decades Iran has claimed that Israel has been holding four of its diplomats in captivity. Before he died in January, Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani confirmed to an Iranian journalist that this is a lie.

An anesthesiologist argues that the quest for “perfect” artificial intelligence is not just futile, but also dangerous. Second in a series on AI—read the first here.

China is energetically sowing divisions between states and the Federal government.

Secretaries of State should be loyal to their Presidents, but Mike Pompeo has turned that virtue into a vice.